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“So often a long-awaited book is disappointing. Happily such is not the case with Sutherland’s masterpiece.” Robert M. Stamp, University of Calgary, in The Canadian Historical Review
“Sutherland’s work is destined to be a landmark in Canadian history, both as a first in its particular field and as a standard reference text.” J. Stewart Hardy, University of Alberta, in Alberta Journal of Educational Research
Such were the reviewers’ comments when Neil Sutherland’s groundbreaking book was first published. Now reissued in Wilfrid Laurier University Press’s new series “Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada,” with a new introduction by series editor Cynthia Comacchio, this book remains relevant today. In the late nineteenth century a new generation of reformers committed itself to a program of social improvement based on the more effective upbringing of all children. In Children in English-Canadian Society, Neil Sutherland examines, with a keen eye, the growth of the public health movement and its various efforts at improving the health of children.
Neil Sutherland served for 37 years in the University of British Columbia’s Department of Educational Studies. He was the principal investigator of the Canadian Childhood History Project located at UBC, and has published articles, reviews and a number of books, most recently Growing Up: Childhood in English Canada from the Great War to the Age of Television. He is the author of Children in English-Canadian Society: Framing the Twentieth-Century Consensus(WLU Press, 2000).
|Cynthia Comacchio's research focuses on the history of children/childhood and youth in Canada, late 19th to 21st centuries. She is the author of numerous articles and books, including The Dominion of Youth: Adolescence and the Making of a Modern Canada, 1920-50 (WLU Press, 2008) and Ring Around the Maple: Settler Children in Canada, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (WLU Press, 2024).
Table of Contents for Children in English-Canadian Society: Framing the Twentieth-Century Consensus edited by Neil Sutherland
Foreword | Cynthia Comachhio
Preface
Part I: “Elevate the Home”: Changing Attitudes to Children in English-Speaking Canada, 1870–1900
1. “A Good Home and Kind Treatment”: Late-Nineteenth-Century English-Canadian Attitudes to Children and Child-Rearing
2. “Multitudes Better Equipped...than Their Fathers”: A New Childhood for a New Society
Part II: “To Create a Strong and Healthy Race”: Children in the Public Health Movement, 1880–1920
3. “Our Whole Aim Is Prevention”: Public Health in the Schools, 1880–1914
4. “Education...Carried on Principally in the Home”: The Campaign to Reduce Infant Mortality, 1895–1920
5. “Invariably the Race Levels Down”: Mental Hygiene and Canadian Children
6. “How Can We Reach Them?”: Making Child Health a Nation-Wide Enterprise
Part III: “Remove the Young from Schools of Crime”: Transforming the Treatment of Juvenile Delinquents, 1885–1925
7. From Reformatory to Family Home: Late-Nineteenth-Century Young Offenders in the Context of Changing Theory and Prevailing Practice
8. Towards “Intelligent and Progressive Legislation for the Prevention of Crime”: Preparing the Way for the Juvenile Delinquents Act, 1886–1908
9. Trying to Make a “Child into What a Child Should Be‘: Implementing the Juvenile Delinquents Act, 1908–1925
Part IV: “The School Must Be the Agent”: Using the New Education to Make the New Society
10 Changing Albert School: The Institutional Context for Education Reform in Canada, 1890–1920
11. “A Very Strong Undercurrent of Dissatisfaction”: Setting the Stage for the. “New” Education, 1885–1900
12. “The Common Centre from which Radiated Plans and Labours”: The Macdonald-Robertson Movement Demonstrates the New Education to Canadians, 1900–1913
13. From Proposals to Policy: The “New” Education Enters the Main Stream, 1910–1920
Part V: Children in English-Canadian Society in the Twentieht Century
14. “Launch a Generation”: Organizing to Implement the New Consensus
Notes
Bibliographic Note
Index